The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-12-23
THE LABOR WORLD.
WORK AND
Drits OF Affairs in the Labor World.

companies are introducing specific
forms of heating cars, and out of the
variety of devices there will certainly
be evolved one practical method, One
system nses hot water, which is forced
through pipes, another hot air. One
scheme is to use pressure, and another
to use an exhaust. The mechanical
difficulties in the way cannot be easily
overcome. 1t has been estimated that
it will cost $40 q year per car for heat.
1t has been shown that fifty pounds OF
exhaust steam, circulated by the suc-
ton system, is az .effectual rs seventy
five pounds of live steam circulated by
the pressure system.
In the textile markets cotton goods
of all kinds are firm IN price, prints
show an advancing tendency, winter
dress fabrics are boing closed out at
low prices, as are also various lines of
foreign silks, v~elvets, plusLes, cloak
ings, etc An advance on dark prints
is probable. Within tho past week
sweeping reductions in many branches
OF the carpet trade have been made.
United States engineers are pushing
the construction of locks on the Coosa
river, so that the valuable Goose coal
fields can be developed. The Cahawba
coal-tields are also to be developed, and
200 cars are now being built at Annis-
ton equipped with air brakes to carry
coal from that field to all the Northern
Alabama manufacturing centers not
otherwise supplied.
A railroad company building a line
from Kansas City to Birmingham, Ala,
proposes to build up a big to wn and
call it Amony, where railroad shops
will be built TO employ 1000 hands, and
a large number of manufacturing es-
tablishments put up, if the programme,
which is a complete one. shall he car
ried OFT.
The effort to organize the New Eng
land shoe manufacturers into an ASSOC
citation to oppose their workmen has
not met with cordial cooperation
everywhere. At Lynn one-third of the
manufacturers remain out. The lasters
in New England have asked for q 20
per cent advance. The lastmakers
say trade is duller than aver before
known.
A new steam generator in England
is arousing n great deal Of interest be-
cause Of its great efficiency. 1t is run
on the pressure instead of the draft
principle. This obviates the expensive
tail cdimneys and costly methods of fir.
ing now in use. 1t is simply done by
forcing an increased amount of air into
the fuel.
On July l the stocks of window glass
in this country were given at 704, S49
; 5O-foot boxes. On November l the
stocks were 1929 boxes. The i'm
: portation of window glass for 1887 is
1,03S. 723 boxes. This is the largest
importation of any year in the history
OF the country excepting 1885, when il
reached 1927, $50 boxes.
There is scarcely a textile mill il
l New England that has not increased it.
capacity in motive power, f~lsorlnl
space and machinery. There is a ten
dency to q concentration of interests
and schemes are urder consideration
!. looking to tho combination of small
concerns now competing.
] The roar of a new we'll in Westmore
: land county can be heard for miles. L
: is owned by the Cambria Gas company
A new well just brought in threw :
wrench weighing 500 pounds through
, the opening into the air. A Philadel
, pnia company owns $1,000 acres o.
this territory.
Designing talent is being stimulated
by textile manufacturers. Lowell
t School has sixty-two students. The
/ Philadelphia School of Textile Desigr
is highly spoken of by New England.
ers, and they are suggesting that it be
made a pattern for others.
Liverpool is to be supplied by a res.
ervoir from a point sixty-eight miles
distant. 1t Will cost $l5, 900, 900. ar
! entire village is to be removed to give
, the reservoir space four and a hal
miles long by cne-half mile wide. II
will be eighty feet deep.
Within tho past week or ten days the
ranks of the army of idle labor have
been swelled by additions from the
building trades and certain lines OF ma
chine shop labor. Among the builders,
however, there will be less idleness
than there was last year.
1t is proposed to construct a canal
from Duluth to a point on the Red
River of the North, and to extend
steamboat navigation 1900 miles west
ward from Lake Winnipeg, where it is
possible to develop wheat lands of $780,
600 square miles.
Along with manufacturing activity
the lumber manufacturers and dealers
of the south are having quite a time.
A great deal of new timber territory is
being opened up and saw mills are be-
ing put together as fast as possible.
The new water works at Mobile cost
the city $685;OOO and nave a supply Of
90, 0o0, 900 gallons per day within ten
miles of the city, which is far beyond
thelr neeos. fzy
Insthe sseys inasstsyser.s works
turning oui Rspnls sadsttrxstivs
ducts will . hpsys tlrpnRh ths e ater,
while those On standard goods will be-
slack.
The value of the leather industries Of
Newark, N. j., is over 50, 900. 900 per
year; of jewelry. 1880 900; o trunks,
$4,000, 900; of clothing 50 100000.
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